tallica. 
MAMMALIA; FERjEs Vivcrra. 
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Tail long, bulhy, the firlt third whkHh-grey with black 
hairs, lower two-thirds black. 
Fierce, biting, feeds on flefh: 20 inches long, tail 16. 
Head long ; ears round, black; whijkers long, black, flat on the 
cheeks ; noJlriU arched ; eyes with a white fpot above, a white 
line beneath ; body whitiflt-grey, with large black hairs ; back 
on the upper part llriped and Ipotted with black ; belly whit- 
ifh ; le^s black ; paws 5-toed, claws white, crooked. 
annulate; face with a white 
, and outer lide of each eye. 
Size of the laft: : Jides, rump, and upper part of the cinere- 
ous, with fcattered black I'pots; nofe at the tip, cheeks, and 
throat, black; ears large, upright, thin, naked, black, behind 
each a black line to the flioulder ; tail cinereous mixed with 
tawny near the bale, annulate with black. 
fpot each fide the 
'^‘Seina. 
Tail annulate ; body cinereous fpotted with black. 
Inhabits Madagafcar, mA Africa ; wild, ferocious; feeds on 
flefh, fruit, has not the civet odour. 
Body flender, cinereous, oblcurely ipotted with black ; from the 
head to the fltoulders 4 black lines ; belly dirty-white ; eyes 
large, black. 
Tail annulate, brown at the tip ; body cinereous fpotted 
with brown, with a black llreak from the head to 
the tail. 
Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope.; fizc of a common cat ; fond of 
flefh, efpecially birds ; has no civet odour. 
Head round; fliort ; whijkers white; cheeks yellowifli- 
white ; a round black fpot each fide the nofe ; forehead with 
a dulky line down the middle. 
^‘^xdivoU 
va. 
^feken, 
Jtlis, 
Yellow mixed with black ; tall of the fame colour, pre- 
henfile. Yellow JFeefeL 
Inhabits Jamaica; tame, playful, climbs trees. 
Head broad, flat ; ears broad, pendent, diilant ; from the head to 
the tail, and from the middle of the belly to the tail, a broad 
dufky llripe. 
Olive-yellow mixed with grey and brown ; tail long, pre- 
henfile. Mexican fFeefeh 
Inhabits New Spain ; refembles the lafl but is larger, fits up, 
catches with its paws, is fond of fugar, fweet meats, fruit and 
Vegetables ; kills poultry, and fucks the blood from under the 
wing. 
Nofe 
